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Every design failure starts with an engineer hand-waving how something bad won't/can't happen. Then you end up with self-driving cars that run over and kill in
by ck2 5y ago
Every design failure starts with an engineer hand-waving how something bad won't/can't happen.
Then you end up with self-driving cars that run over and kill innocent people and reactors that melt down because they didn't think of something.
- quenix 5y ago> Every design failure starts with an engineer hand-waving how something bad won't/can't happen. Yes, but the converse is not true: when one <hand-waves how something bad won't/can't happen>, it does not necessarily mean that <there will be a design failure>. You are trying to say that act A causes consequence B because many instances of B correlate with A. That is not sound.
- prophesi 5y agoIf only the original hand-waving engineers were just as logically sound in their assessments.